The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Alexander V. Blake, 1840 |
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עמוד 1
... DRYDEN SMITH . • 78 113 • 77 Marmor Norfolciense ; or , an Essay on an ancient Prophetical Inscription in Monkish Rhyme , lately discovered near Lynn 385 120 Observations on the State of Affairs in 1756 392 121 An Introduction to the ...
... DRYDEN SMITH . • 78 113 • 77 Marmor Norfolciense ; or , an Essay on an ancient Prophetical Inscription in Monkish Rhyme , lately discovered near Lynn 385 120 Observations on the State of Affairs in 1756 392 121 An Introduction to the ...
עמוד 5
... Dryden . the stipulation gives the enemy nothing which he had not before ; the neutrality of a captive may be always secured by his imprisonment or death . He that is at the disposal of another may not pro- mise to aid him in any ...
... Dryden . the stipulation gives the enemy nothing which he had not before ; the neutrality of a captive may be always secured by his imprisonment or death . He that is at the disposal of another may not pro- mise to aid him in any ...
עמוד 6
... Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " That , when they told Cowley how little favour had been shown him , he received the news of his ill success , not with so much firmness as might have ...
... Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " That , when they told Cowley how little favour had been shown him , he received the news of his ill success , not with so much firmness as might have ...
עמוד 7
... Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit ; but maintains , that they surpass him in poetry . If wit be well described by Pope , as being that which has been often thought , but was never ...
... Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit ; but maintains , that they surpass him in poetry . If wit be well described by Pope , as being that which has been often thought , but was never ...
עמוד 11
... Dryden's night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest ; Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when the labourers have Such rest in bed , that their last ...
... Dryden's night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest ; Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when the labourers have Such rest in bed , that their last ...
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עמוד 275 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy ; and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
עמוד 279 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
עמוד 96 - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
עמוד 148 - His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
עמוד 8 - ... what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes of life without interest and without emotion. Their courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before.
עמוד 21 - Cooper's Hill is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author. He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection, or incidental meditation.
עמוד 46 - He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hinderance : he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
עמוד 211 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
עמוד 252 - What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls...
עמוד 111 - Tis not enough that Aristotle has said so, for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy from Sophocles and Euripides ; and, if he had seen ours, might have changed his mind.